cat @reallycat

cat is a bee buzzin around cultures, people, politics, ideas, becomings, sunshine... couchsurfing.com/people/zorbino Toronto - Montevideo Joined March 2008

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Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill

a year ago

Walter Benjamin

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Sherry Turkle @STurkle

2 years ago

When chatbots perform empathy, people begin to feel that the performance of empathy is empathy enough. The technology challenges us to assert ourselves and our human values, which means that we have to figure out what those values are. news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

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The Walrus @thewalrus

3 years ago

With rising housing costs and changing demographics, multigenerational living is finally gaining more social acceptance. But just because it often makes sense for families doesn’t make it easy. thewalrus.ca/multigeneratio…

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neil turkewitz @neilturkewitz

3 years ago

Johan Cedmar-Brandstedt posted this on LinkedIn a few months ago. He has the good sense to not be on this platform, but I wanted to amplify his perfect reframing of Andreessen’s comment about the consequences of having to pay for the content that drives AI. My reply also attached

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Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear

3 years ago

How Culture Affects the 'Marshmallow Test': "How many other studies of human behavior reflect narrow cultural lenses? How often has our research and academic culture privileged just a subset of voices and experiences?" scientificamerican.com/article/how-cu…

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Andrew Gallimore @alieninsect

3 years ago

"[For the Greeks] inappropriate sobriety was thought highly suspect. Some skills, such as oratory, could only be exercised when drunk. Sober people were coldhearted -- they meditated before they spoke and were careful about what they said, and therefore did not really care about their subject." -- Iain Gately

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Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski

3 years ago

To the extent humans densely aggregate, we come to hunger for community, yet tend to forget that community emerges from necessary communal reliance––a pattern precisely opposite to the iteration-agnostic nature of transaction upon which high-complexity urban life relies.

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Pauline Holdsworth @holdswo

3 years ago

"All insecurity is not created equal. So I talk about what I call existential insecurity, which is the insecurity we feel as mortal, vulnerable, fragile creatures -- and then manufactured insecurity, which is a kind of insecurity that is imposed on us." - @astradisastra

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Toronto Star @TorontoStar

3 years ago

#Opinion: It’s time for Toronto to embark on a transformative journey toward community-centered governance. Together, let us build a Toronto that we can all be proud to call home, writes @chloebrown4TO trib.al/98vTfBk

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Imperfect Buddha Podcast @Imperfectbuddha

3 years ago

Genuine friendship permits each to experiment in being truly authentic, and poorly inauthentic, with each expression welcomed as an attempt at something greater than the monotony of conformity.

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The Walrus @thewalrus

3 years ago

A troubled community is reflected in its libraries. And if the social problems of twenty-first-century life continue to grow with little restraint, they will inevitably find their way into the city’s last public places, writes @nickhunebrown. thewalrus.ca/future-of-libr…

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Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow

3 years ago

#Sopranos fans know the #BustOut as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mob does it, it's a bust out; when Wall Street does it, it's #PrivateEquity. 1/

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jeremy @jerhadf

3 years ago

these paragraphs from the AI Objectives Institute whitepaper are so vital. they make a point I don't see enough: super-intelligent, misaligned optimizers are already here. they're everywhere! all over our political & economic systems (e.g. corporations) ai.objectives.institute/whitepaper

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Hank Green @hankgreen

3 years ago

This vlogbrothers comment 🤯

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt

10 years ago

My #OSOSNZ prayer. Thank you all fabulous people!

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cat @reallycat

3 years ago

For more variety of ideas and people in power! Thank you @morricemike @beynate @jwaldag @JulieDzerowicz @PatrickBWeiler @JenicaAtwin @Daniel_Blaikie @ElizabethMay @BenLobbMP @FairVoteCanada #EndFPTP #ElectoralReform fairvote.ca/citizens-assem…

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Ahmed Ali @DrAhmednurAli

3 years ago

I often think about Toni Morrison's career advice: "When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."

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Ali = Alison Stewart 🚲😎 @AlisonVStewart

3 years ago

I support @CycleToronto asking @BikeShareToronto to keep pricing affordable for all! We need to support equity deserving communities and move more people away from 🚗to meet transportation equity goals. #ActiveTransportation #climatecrisis cycleto.ca/news/bike-shar…

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Fanny Lakoubay @flakoubay

3 years ago

Going beyond art resale royalties, have you read about partial common ownership based on the idea of the Harberger tax? Here is your chance thanks to @RadxChange radicalxchange.org/media/blog/ret…